Rayman is huge - more colorful than you can imagine, superb sound
effects, excellent musical score, large map that opens with a choice of
routes (as you make progress), brillian animation (on all characters),
challenging (a tough journey), and playable has heck! You start off
with no defense, except jumping over baddies, or ducking under
obstacles, but as you progress, you earn new tricks like being able to
punch out characters, with seperated fist that can punch out nearby
enemies (the harder you hold the punch button, the longer the fist
travels). There's a lot of climbing, jumping, and kicking-ass- and the
emeny characters are quite humorous and well thought out. At one point
you go one on one with giant fly with a huge stinger - after defeating
him, you become friends and fly on his back for a nasty bonus flight.
Another scene has you quickly planting seeds in order to grow a huge
bean stalk which you have to quickly climb as water begins to climb
below you feet. Overall, a tremendous playform game - that was indeed
worth the wait (my opinion). :)
Hope this helps a bit. 

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